karl3422 [none/use name]

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  • Shakespeare. A lot of his plots are dull and read like a fever dream. Also I couldn't get over how blatantly irresponsible writing Macbeth was, he made a play about witches trying to kill a king to be performed in front of a king (read unstable warlord) who was genuinely worried about that. Making Macbeth given the environment of the witchhunts was murder in the same way Manson is a murderer and it's crazy that a man so blatantly unprincipled is talked up like this great dude









  • karl3422 [none/use name]tothe_dunk_tankFuckin nazi
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    3 years ago

    there's a deep danger to hearing Israel when someone says Jews. Israel was not mentioned once in this exchange. A white supremisist wouldn't see Jews as not white enough a white supremacist would see Jews as not being human



  • karl3422 [none/use name]tothe_dunk_tankFuckin nazi
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    3 years ago

    yes Israel did that bad thing but this isn't talking about Israel it's talking about Jews. Also those Ethiopian Jews are also Jewish. Plus Jews aren't white, Jews weren't white before there even was a white



  • Yes it's critical of capitalism but it's critical in a resolutely and unavoidably aristocratic manner and at one point the protagonist who is very much intended to be sympathetic describes active hate on the morlocks who are explicitly a flanderised version of the industrial working class implying that the current working class are worthy of a lesser version of that active contempt. The author was a Fabian and they are notably classist for socialists